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Summary: Learn how to do the two-handed turn when dancing the Merengue in this free Latin dance lesson on video.
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Leslie Sack Leslie Sack has been teaching, performing and competing in Latin and ballroom dancing for the past 12 years. Before moving to Santa Barbara in 1999, she taugh... read more
Hi this is Leslie Sack with expertvillage.com. My website is lesliesack.com, and the dance that we are doing is merengue. This is my dance partner Jorge Saucedo, and we are going to show you a two handed turn now. We have to get to here, so we are going to start in a closed dance position, and we are going to be doing our basic step. He's going to bring this hand down, he's going to push me away a little bit so he can pull to the other hand, and I'm moving back. He is going to bring both of his hands up, and then the ladies are going to turn right. Watch the elbows in front of you. And the guys, as they put their hands on their head, he goes to his left. Okay let's do that one more time. Girls are going right, just walking forward, and guys are going left. That is the first part, and then the second part, he brings his hands up towards his right ear, and the girls are going to turn forward to the left, and then the guys over the line to the right. So lets do it one more time. Girls are going left, just walking forward and around. And the way you come out of it is the guys turn right, and then you are back together again.